"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."
William Shakespeare"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."
William Shakespeare"Brevity is the soul of wit."
William Shakespeare"Boldness be my friend."
William Shakespeare"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"
William Shakespeare"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
William Shakespeare"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
William Shakespeare"Death is a fearful thing."
William Shakespeare"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
William Shakespeare"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
William Shakespeare"The love of heaven makes one heavenly."
William Shakespeare"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."
William Shakespeare"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."
William Shakespeare"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
William Shakespeare"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
William Shakespeare"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
William Shakespeare"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
William Shakespeare"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
William Shakespeare"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
William Shakespeare"To do a great right do a little wrong."
William Shakespeare"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."
William Shakespeare"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
William Shakespeare"This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
William Shakespeare"I bear a charmed life."
William Shakespeare"The course of true love never did run smooth."
William Shakespeare"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."
William Shakespeare"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
William Shakespeare"I was adored once too."
William Shakespeare"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
William Shakespeare"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
William Shakespeare"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."
William Shakespeare"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
William Shakespeare"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
William Shakespeare"My pride fell with my fortunes."
William Shakespeare"For I can raise no money by vile means."
William Shakespeare"If music be the food of love, play on."
William Shakespeare"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
William Shakespeare"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
William Shakespeare"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."
William Shakespeare"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."
William Shakespeare"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."
William Shakespeare"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love."
William Shakespeare"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."
William Shakespeare"They do not love that do not show their love."
William Shakespeare"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
William Shakespeare"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
William Shakespeare"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."
William Shakespeare"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
William Shakespeare"We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone."
William Shakespeare"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
William Shakespeare"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
William Shakespeare"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."
William Shakespeare"Let no such man be trusted."
William Shakespeare"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
William Shakespeare"Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love."
William Shakespeare"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
William Shakespeare"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
William Shakespeare"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
William Shakespeare"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."
William Shakespeare